There's this fantastic restaurant lounge in Plainville MA that has acquired my musical performance services for this evening. It is called The Tavern From Tower Square, and I begin shebanging at 7pm.

There are currently a great many original songs on tonight's list, as well as at least two Phish tunes and a pair of Dead tunes.

I'll be playing totally solo; three sets.

If I end up playing all the tunes I've picked out for tonight, it's gonna rule. Most times I don't get the chance to sit down and plan out my song selection like this. Tonight there should be a real flow, minimal dead air and better choices than usual ... plus I'm rotating in songs I haven't played, and leaving out stuff that's overplayed.

Anyway I'm goin. I guess I won't see you guys there, but if you stop in, be sure to come see me and tell me I sent ya.

Last night I played an open mic - first three songs from my newest CD. I felt like I nailed it last night. I talked the ear off the featured performer before leaving and we traded CDs. Then I ruined it all by listening to the rest of Coventry. :D

Dudes. Played for some of my favorite people to play for tonight, in Waterbury CT. They love us out there (my brother and I, that is). We played a Jack & Jill party for 'em, two sets.

Phish songs covered:

Guelah Papyrus (sans Asse Festival! that's a crazy bit that small time duos should be exempt from having to attempt)

Golgi Apparatus

Possum

Cavern

Fee

Sample In A Jar

Chalkdust > Fluffhead (not travels, ... but we did the reprise bit at the end.)

that was our encore actually ... these people originally hired us years ago because they're into Phish, and found out we cover some Phish songs. So they always ask for plenty of Phish.

The "Jill"/bride-to-be approached me during Chalkdust and said "You guys aren't leaving here without playing 'Fluffhead' " ... so I communicated to Mike that we should segue into Fluff, and we did, and it was a blast, and they loved it, and Fluffhead is still awesome.

Okay yeah. Awesome gig tonight. Mike and I talked about nothing but disc golf the whole 2 hour ride, both rides there and back, actually. My brother Mike's really an amazing musician for a guy who isn't really into music.

Last edited by Anonymous on Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

My pleasure man! That was fun, that whole thing. I'll get that San Diego set uploaded asap! And I'll have to be sure to get a digital recording device, that's been my plan for months. I'd love to be sharing them Phish covers with dehr OKP. I even nailed the lyrics to Fee *AND* Cavern!
:D

I've finally bought myself a Tascam DR-1, which is this portable digital recording device. Hopefully there will now be free live performance downloads for the whole wide world, and everyone will love it.

Tonight I ran a quick pre-gig test, just to get a feel for the machine. Here are my quick, first take performances of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" and Phish's "Oh Kee Pa Ceremony", just for laughs.

I should be back soon to offer a gig from the coming weekend for download, free. I'm playing with Mike too, so it's interactive rather than totally solo, which to me is more interesting.

So I recorded only the very first song of my set, because I weren't smaht enuff to delete last weekend's recordings from the SD card in the recorder.

But here's the setlist, cuz why the hell not, right? Pretend you know all these songs and can't believe how seck this setlist is.

ladies & gentlemen of the world
happen to be
fuzzbot
mutually exclusive part 2
as it gets hot
nightgown of the sullen moon (They Might Be Giants)
gorgeous in the face
hardly solid softly pliable
the visible edge
some of these days (Shelton Brooks)
5000 >
capable of saying things
tube (Phish)
in the hazy glow of the mount'nous horizon
reconsider

Next time I get to do June 19, 2009, I'm totally emptying the old data first.